I was usually alone in the house. If a stranger came, for example a policeman on patrol, I would invite him in and prepare food for him myself. Ham, coffee, omelettes and even a roast chicken. Mr Guhs and his wife treated me as if I were their son. I was always very keen to […]Read Post ›
Parents’ ‘marriage. Gustaw Wisoky Autobiography ******* My mother is the daughter of a clerk in the Cozla mine. My mother and my father only had a civil wedding ( a Hungarian one) the reason that a church wedding did not take place after the civil one , despite the Weizenried priest having friendly relations with […]Read Post ›
45 years ago I got married for the first time. I’d met my husband a month before and we decided to get married as soon as we could. Various reasons, mostly practical, but of course we didn’t envisage any of the fallout. I’ve written about this before, so I’m not going to dwell on it […]Read Post ›
I’m in Valencia at the moment, having been whisked here by husband to try and forget about my impending cataract removal and to celebrate our 45th wedding anniversary. It’s been a great time for celebrations – I was seventy 3 weeks ago and had the most fabulous surprises, dinners, parties etc. it’s nice getting old, […]Read Post ›
The photographs here are all of statues and sculptures I liked for their sinuous forms. I just wanted to reach out and stroke and touch. Couldn’t of course. But it was pleasant just to linger and look.
A few weeks ago my best friend’s brother died. He was also my husband’s cousin, and I’ve written about Tom before, I think. It was sudden, and shocking, and extremely sad. Tributes and memories poured in and many people came to the funeral. Including Tom’s childhood friends and members of his group, Just an Odd […]Read Post ›
Maybe that’s a bit of an abstruse connection, but yesterday one of my husband’s dreams came true. It was our 44th wedding anniversary and we decided to escape the Coronation and come to Soller so he could do a course in copper patination. A few years ago we were in Malaga and happened to wander […]Read Post ›
I found this beautiful picture of my mother-in -aw today. Of course that should be mother in law, but I rather like mother in awe.I have never seen this before, but it fell into my hands just now as I was looking through a box of her papers that we brought back from Poland recently. […]Read Post ›
I came back from a quick trip to Warsaw a couple of weeks ago – we were still sorting my mother in law’s flat , but wwe ahd some timeand my husband had this brilliant idea to go to Konstancin and see a small private gallery which was apparently full of art Deco works. We […]Read Post ›
We went to Amsterdam in March, my very first time and I hope not the last. I expected to be bowled over by the canals – which were lovely, but it was the buildings and especially the windows which excited me. Here are a few of the pictures that I took. I know nothing abou
Life Through Basia's Eyes 